Microsoft Band Tools

A Visual Studio extension that provides additional tooling for writing Web Tiles for the Microsoft Band.

See the changelog for changes and roadmap.

Features

The extension provides extra tooling for the manifest.json file which is used to create Web Tiles for the Microsoft Band.

1. Intellisense
   • Based on the schema
   • For custom icons
2. Validation
   • Against the schema
   • Icon file paths
   • Undeclared icons

Intellisense

Schema based

You get full Intellisense for the manifest.json file due to the automatic schema resolver in this extension.

Custom icons

Get customized Intellisense for the icons you have already registered.

This makes it really easy to see what's going on.

Validation

Schema validation

Validation helps catch common mistakes and typos.

Icon file paths

Make sure the icon files you are referencing actually exist.

Undeclared icons

Check that all referenced icons have been declared before use.

Contribute

Check out the contribution guidelines if you want to contribute to this project.

For cloning and building this project yourself, make sure to install the Extensibility Tools 2015 extension for Visual Studio which enables some features used by this project.

License

Apache 2.0